It’s Betty White!

Woohoo! FINALLY! After much begging, campaigning and Lord knows what else, it’s become official…Betty White will HOST “Saturday Night Live” on May 8th!! Just in time for Mother’s Day as well!

In fact it’s going to be a special Mother’s Day episode and will also feature six former female SNL cast members, including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch.

I haven’t watched SNL on a regular basis since the late 80’s and about the only time I tune in anymore is if Christopher Walken is hosting. I can tell you this; May 8^th I’ll be watching Betty kick some ass!

And today, the world counts to 70 and wishes Chuck Norris a Happy Birthday!

Yup, everyone’s favorite ass kicker racks up another year and I’m sure it’s safe to say that when most people fear getting another year older, the year now fears trying to survive Chuck Norris.

(Hey, I think I just wrote my own Chuck Norris fact!)

In honor of the day get educated on all the facts at CHUCKNORRISFACTS.COM.  Just remember Chuck Norris isn’t funny, stop laughing.

And I don’t mean “played” as in getting used and abused and tossed out like you might with someone you picked up at a bar. Dave Grohl is a very happily married man and father. He does want to be played by a woman on the silver screen though.

A Nirvana biopic could be on the way and Grohl thinks Shelley Duvall is the best choice to play him

He tells People.com, “I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m crossing my fingers that Shelley Duvall plays me. Shelley Duvall in “The Shining”… That is my face; you cannot get any closer than that. I am probably the least manly dude that you have ever met in your life. So why not have Shelley Duvall play me?”

Why not? Can’t you see the resemblance?

Grohl is quick to point out that Duvall wouldn’t be the first female to step into a male rock star’s shoes.

He adds, “Put a beard on her. Cate Blanchett did it in the (Bob) Dylan movie (I’m Not There)!”

He’s right! And you know something, Cate did a pretty damn fine job playing Bob and besides, Dave’s portrayed a few different women; remember the video for “Learn to Fly”? Turnabout is fair play.

By now you’ve probably heard me talking on the air about my weekend. It started out ok and then went to hell on Sunday when my fiancée and I found mold not only on a bunch of clothes but all over our armoires and the walls. It was wicked nasty and I’ve been doing laundry nonstop since Sunday afternoon. I inhaled enough spores and bleach that come Monday morning I wasn’t feeling the greatest so I had to skip out on boxing at Kees Camp, which is my favorite way to start my week. But I made up for it today and was up and off to Pump Time.

Today was supposed to be the Pump Time challenge since we’re at the end of our eight week run, but Jen was feeling generous today. That and the fact that some girls didn’t show up so class was small today maybe, but either way we got out of having to max out which was just fine by me, cuz I really just needed a good ol’ fashion workout today.  Jen did let us completely off the hook though as she managed to pick out a soundtrack today with longer than normal songs especially when it came to the squat and lunge and chest tracks. And in the middle of the chest track she walked around and added five pounds on to each of our bars…while we were in the middle of a press!

Now, I’m the first one to wail out, grunt, groan and drop the occasional explicative. I almost dropped my bar on my chest when someone else beat me to it. That would be Shelly. Shelly ALWAYS has a very sunny disposition. Shelly, I mentioned a few weeks back when I first mentioned this whole therapy angle, always finds the silver lining in everything. She’s a great person to talk to cuz no matter how bad it is she’ll find a way to make you smile and realize it’s really not all that bad. So you can imagine my surprise when I hear her not only grunt and groan but dare I say I heard an actual complaint come from her when Jen added that extra weight? Indeed I did! I was so shocked I stopped mid press to make sure I wasn’t imagining. I love Shelly and I love that she’s always so positive but I got much enjoyment out of hearing her actually complain for once. The rest of us all do it so it’s about time she broke her seal!

It was another one of those days where while working out we were chatting away about all kinds of things, good and bad and in-between. As I said before, this is great therapy and after the weekend fiasco, I needed it. I’m already looking forward to the ass whuppin that is Booty Camp on Friday, not only because I need to make up for Monday but I’m going to be missing Saturday Pump Time and Sunday Yoga as I’ll be out of town this weekend. Then next week is a week off.

Jen is getting ready to move to a new location. Yup…she’s heading west and opening a new studio in Governor’s Square.  While she’s going to shift her focus more towards Pole Fitness, and doing MORE of the Pole Fitness, she will still be offering some of the other classes we do now. I’m anxious to see the new, bigger place. I’m anxious to not have to drive to Carlisle four or five days a week anymore. Governor’s Square is much closer to my home which will be awesome. I just hope that it doesn’t deter some of the Carlisle girls from making the same drive I did. I’ve made some awesome friends at Kees Camp and look forward to the new era! Details about the new studio and schedule coming soon! So stay tuned and of course get logged on to KEESCAMPSTORE.COM to stay up to date on the move, the classes, to enroll and more!

It’s official! More poeple love a pickle than the Nickel.

A corny facebook page was put in place just to see if it was possible for the vinegar-soaked veggie to gain more fans than the multiplatinum Canadian wonder.  As of February 19, the pickle has indeed become more popular, gaining 1,414,000  fans compared to Nickelback’s 1,413,000.

The page is obviously just for fun and as part of the joke, an alleged statement by the band was issued. NOTE….most likely, the actual members of Nickelback did NOT issue this.

In the statement, the “band” announces its intention to now disband in the wake of being beaten by the pickle, saying,

“We are ashamed to call ourselves musicians and we fear we have brought dishonor on our fellow Canadians. We are done. We hereby commit to each other and to the public that we will never touch any musical instrument again.”

Like I said, the probability of that statement actually being issued by the band is pretty slim considering they’re gearing up for a spring tour with Breaking Benjamin, Sick Puppies and Shinedown.

I hate pickles. They’re just cucumbers soaked in evil. But I have to admit, this is pretty funny.

Grammy’s, American Music Awards…blah. Revolver Golden Gods? HELL YES!!! Revolver Magazine, which in my opinion is the only music publication really worth reading has announced the nominees for the second annual Golden Gods Awards. One of the coolest things about these awards is the FANS actually have a say so in who wins instead of some stuffy suit wearing schmuck that only cares about numbers. You can vote until March 31^st at the REVOLVER website.

Here’s the categories and the nominees:

BEST GUITARIST
Kirk Hammett (Metallica)
Tony Iommi (Heaven & Hell)
Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine)
Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
Slash
Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society)

BEST DRUMMER
Chris Adler (Lamb of God)
Brann Dailor (Mastodon)
Dave Grohl (Them Crooked Vultures)
Gene Hoglan (Dethklok, Fear Factory)
Dave Lombardo (Slayer)
Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan (Avenged Sevenfold)

BEST VOCALIST
Jonathan Davis (Korn)
Ronnie James Dio (Heaven & Hell)
Neil Fallon (Clutch)
Lzzy Hale (Halestorm)
Serj Tankian (Serj Tankian, System Of A Down)
Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour)

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Alice in Chains, Black Gives Way to Blue
Heaven & Hell, The Devil You Know
Mastodon, Crack the Skye
Megadeth, Endgame
Slayer, World Painted Blood
Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures

BEST LIVE BAND
The Devil Wears Prada
Lamb of God
Metallica
Motorhead
Rob Zombie
Slayer

BEST UNDERGROUND BAND
Behemoth
Between the Buried and Me
The Black Dahlia Murder
Converge
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Obituary

MOST METAL ATHLETE
Josh Barnett (MMA fighting)
Marc Colombo, Cory Procter, and Leonard Davis (NFL football)
Chris Jericho (WWE wrestling)
Mike Piazza (MLB baseball)
Jason Ellis (Pro skateboarding)
Jolene Van Vugt (Pro motocrosser)

HOTTEST CHICK(S) IN METAL
Pearl Aday (Pearl)
Maria Brink (In This Moment)
Lzzy Hale (Halestorm)
Lacey Mosley (Flyleaf)
Alexia & Anissa Rodriguez (Eyes Set to Kill)
Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil)

COMEBACK OF THE YEAR
AC/DC
Alice in Chains
Anvil
Fear Factory
Heaven & Hell
Kiss

Rob Halford will receive a special Revolver Golden God Award, while Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Last year’s Golden God winner, Ozzy Osbourne, will present Halford’s award, while Dave Grohl will do the honors for Kilmister.

The ceremony goes down April 8th at Club Nokia in L.A. and will televised on May 22nd. It will air on VH1 Classic(which is my only gripe, cuz I don’t get that channel!)

 Mother Nature continues to try and mess things up for us Kees Campers.  Monday’s snow forced the cancellation of boxing once again. Fortunately we were able to have a makeup date on Tuesday. And it was awesome!  There were only five of us so we each had our own bag which meant lots of punching and kicking. Lots of frustrations getting worked out. 

We did lots of cardio work too; some bob n weave work; and this crazy deal where we used one of those workout ladder thingys that you stretch out on the floor for some hopscotch and the next thing we’re on our hands with paper plates under our feet and crawling sideways. It was nuts! It definitely worked not only the upper body but the abs and inner thighs and ass felt some serious burn before it was over.

The hour was spent bouncing back and forth between that craziness and beating the hell out of the bag which I kept the word I posted on Facebook and pretended it was Mother Nature. Damn it felt good! I think we all had some things to work out that day. Mandi was kicking her bag over repeatedly. She’s a small girl but she’s got the power kick of a freakin’ mule. It’s scary really! I’m sure she could probably bust your rib if it came to it.

As liberating and relieving as boxing was I felt it this morning when the alarm went off for Pump Time. My back was as taunt as a leather strap used to sharpen a straight razor. My fiancée offered to give me a quick massage and I had to tell him, “Don’t touch me”. If he did, he would have been scraping me off the ceiling. 

So I knew going into today that it was going to be painful. I wasn’t alone; the other four girls came in today all saying the same thing; “Oh, my back!” I was surprised that my back hurt so badly as I was expecting the bulk of my pain today to be in my inner thighs. But in comparing stories of pain this morning along with Jen it was determined we were a bit more aggressive than we thought yesterday. I guess when you spend an hour beating the piss out of something it takes its toll on you. Plus with boxing, it’s using a whole new bunch of muscles than what is used in Pump Time. Hell, it uses EVERY muscle and uses them hard.

With the very first dead lift in the warm up this morning the five of us all let out a simultaneous groan. But we sucked it up, groaned some more, grunted a little, sweat a lot, and busted our way thru. And even though things still hurt and I’m sure I’ll feel some new pains tomorrow, I feel great that I fought thru it and worked out yesterday’s pain with some new pain. I wonder sometimes why I do this to myself but I know how some things look in the mirror and I know how I feel not only physically, but mentally after such punishment as well. Does that make me sadistic? Perhaps. But you know the old adage; no pain, no gain.

Get your log onto KEESCAMPSTORE.COM and check out the classes Jen has to offer and find something that works for you. You’ll love it! I promise!

Day five of the 2010 Winter Olympics and things are starting to get really good. That’s because the Men’s Ice Hockey got underway today with the US taking on Switzerland. The US team is loaded with NHL talent; probably more than any other team, except for maybe Canada but the team is also very young. In fact there’s been lots of speculation that the US would be considered a bit of an underdog, too young and too inexperienced to make it very far; that the majority of the US success would lie in the gloved hand of goalie Ryan Miller.

Switzerland doesn’t have a ton of big names, save for their saver; goalie Jonas Hiler who is the net minder for the Anaheim Ducks. But they’re not to be brushed off quite so easily either as they were thought to be a very strong team defensively; and that would bode well against a young, fast and offensively aggressive US team.  Not to mention the fact that Hiler has been doing so well in Anaheim, that he took the full time job away from Stanley Cup winning Jean Sebastien Giguere who was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs last month.

For much of the first period things seemed pretty evenly matched.  That is until just over a minute left in the first period. Former Iowa Chop and current Anaheim Duck, Bobby Ryan took a puck that bounced off the boards and fired it home unassisted for the first goal of the game.

Bobby Ryan is playing in his very first Olympics. Bobby Ryan got the very first goal. Bobby Ryan scored that goal against his own goaltender (ok, they’re on the same team when it’s not Olympics time). Bobby Ryan has made many of us here, me included, very happy and very proud.

Bobby’s goal set the pace for the rest of the game as in just over two minutes into the second period goals were scored by David Backes and Ryan Malone. Backes, by the way, grew up very near our very own Andy Hall. He also played his junior hockey in the USHL in my old stomping grounds of Lincoln NE, for the Lincoln Stars. I used to watch him play every weekend.

The Swiss managed to squeak in one goal on Miller with about 10 minutes left in the game. The initial shot hit Miller’s stick and then dropped down to his pads and just trickled over and behind him.

The US defeated the Swiss 3-1 in the opening rounds of Olympic play. It was a great game all the way around and I think after this, they’ve proved that they just might be more of a contender than they may be given credit for.

The US will next face Norway at 2pm on Thursday on USA Network.  Norway suffered an 8-0 beat down from the home team, Canada, so they shouldn’t be much of a problem.

God I love this game!

There’s so much stress in the world these days. Just in daily life it seems there’s always a multitude of things that weigh on you all the time. Plus you add in the never-ending winter and it takes its toll. It affects your sleep, it affects your appetite and of course it affects your mood.  So what to do to relieve some of that? Get your sad ass outta bed and get in a workout.

I did just that today. After a crappy night of sleep that followed a day that never seemed to end yesterday, I got up in anticipation of seeing the sun, since that was in the forecast,  and saw gray, clouds and more flakes falling from the sky. Ugh! But I got up and out and headed off to Kees Camp in hopes of changing how I was feeling.

We had a small group today; just four of us plus Jen. Turned out that was perfect as we all we in the same exact mood today. Well, except for Shelly maybe; she’s always positive no matter what. That’s what I love about her. But seems the rest of us all had a Tuesday that just really needed to be forgotten.  So as we started out workout 10 minutes late we didn’t even focus on the physical pain we were enduring as we all were more engrossed in spilling mental pain instead. I must say, it made the hour go by very quick! We took turns venting about everything that was bugging us and by the end of the class we’d purged all that bad stuff thru grunting, sweating and bitching. It felt great.

So next time you’re all bogged down with a bunch of negative crap, get your friends and get to the gym.

Good workout + good friends=Good therapy.

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